Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The above statement outlines complicated issue of whether it is important for a leader to understand the past. Indisputably, anyone in a position of leadership ought to have a clear understanding of the present. Without this clear understanding, a leader could not know how to best utilize her influential position. Likewise, a leader must have a vivid understanding of what the future might look like. A CEO cannot lead a company without first a promising indicator of future success. Similar, it is vitally important for any person in leadership to have a strong understanding of the past, so that that knowledge can be used for the good of those whom she serves.

First of all, consider my former place of employment, H-E-B Grocery Company, a popular grocery store in the state of Texas. For the majority of my time at this company, my store struggled financially. The store's managers could not manage to increase their store's revenue and were eventually let go. When the new store managers stepped in to their positions of leadership they sought to understand what had been done in the past to increase sales. Within just a year's time, the two new managers utilized past sales data, customer review, etc. to increase the stores sales. Therefore, it is obvious that a person in leadership could use the past to positively influence her environment.

Second, consider my mother who helped a struggling emergency room get back on their feet. Like, the H-E-B managers, she did her best to understand the past, specifically, in the way that the ER had operated before. With the knowledge of the ER's past difficulties she was able to understand the problems of the past, and pave the path forward for a better future.

Although, some people might believe that it is not important to understand and use the past. And there is some truth to this claim. It is very important to understand current problems. However, one must not neglect the past. The above examples demonstrate how the past is, in fact, very useful to people in positions of leadership.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 300, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...res revenue and were eventually let go. When the new store managers stepped in to th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, likewise, look, second, so, therefore, in fact, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 348.0 442.535393258 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91379310345 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82890003119 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511494252874 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.5286207795 60.3974514979 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.4285714286 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5714285714 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.80952380952 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.18388993977 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570264545185 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538660521246 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11462851264 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0296655941983 0.0667264976115 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 14.1392134831 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 100.480337079 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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